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Hall of Fame 2010 Inductees

	Ellen Brown In addition to being the first boys work secretary, Ellen Brown has the distinction of being the first female professional employee of a YMCA. continued...

	Isaac Eddy Brown A towering figure in YMCA history, I.E. Brown, as he was known, was instrumental in the early architectural design of YMCA buildings and also in the development of YMCA educational systems. continued...

	Sumner F. Dudley Sumner F. Dudley came to understand — and to convince other YMCA leaders — that the camping experience provided a unique setting for character-building. continued...

	Clement Duran Clement “Pete” Duran, originator of the Youth and Government Program, started his career as a desk clerk at the Amsterdam(N.Y.) YMCA. continued...

	Charles Eastman One of the first Native American YMCA secretaries, Dr. Eastman, a Sioux Indian and a physician, began his work for the Movement in 1894. continued...

	Asa Kent Jennings Asa Kent Jennings’ courage captivated the imagination of the world; his story was produced twice in movies, in 1945 as “Strange Destiny” and then in 1952 as “A Man of Great Importance.” continued...

	William Chauncey Langdon Beyond the achievement of founding a major urban YMCA, William Chauncey Langdon’s greatest work was as a driving force in the development of a national YMCA identity. continued...

	William E. Lewis A veteran of the Civil War and an evangelist, William E. Lewis was one of the early “state secretaries” at a time when the YMCA movement was responding to the need to coordinate and support the work of local associations. continued...

	Max Yergan Max Yergan was a controversial activist whose politics, over years, shifted from communist to anti-communist, but his pioneering YMCA work in South Africa stands as his monumental legacy. continued...

	Cephas Brainerd Although a man of conservative views, during a period when the YMCA was divided over how to serve African-Americans, Cephas Brainerd advised against setting up racially separate divisions in the YMCA and foresaw an arrangement where whites and blacks would participate together in YMCA state conventions. continued...

	G. Sherwood Eddy A contemporary and colleague of John R. Mott, G. Sherwood Eddy was one of the best known evangelists and religious writers of his day. continued...

	Dwight Moody According to YMCA historian Howard Hopkins, evangelist Dwight L. Moody is “the greatest religious figure in the first century of the American Y.M.C.A.” continued...

	David Allen Reed The Reverend David Allen Reed, a Congregationalist minister who assisted Dwight Moody in religious revivals, founded a tuition-free School for Christian Workers at Winchester Square in Springfield, Mass., in 1885. continued...

	John D. Rockefeller Jr. The beginning of the YMCA Retirement Fund goes back to 1911, when a secretaries conference raised the idea. Five years later, formation of such a fund was authorized, and in 1922 the fund was begun, largely due to a $1 million gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr. continued...

	Julius Rosenwald A part-owner and director of Sears Roebuck, Julius Rosenwald of Chicago was a philanthropist with a particular commitment to the welfare and education of the African-American community. continued...

	William S. Sloane William S. Sloane was president of the National War Work Council, which was formed in 1917 and raised and managed hundreds of millions of dollars to support YMCA initiatives to serve American and Allied troops during World War I. continued...

	George Stuart George Stuart’s ability to organize and fundraise were put to their greatest test during the Civil War when, as chairman of the United States Christian Commission (organized by YMCAs to recruit and support Union troops), he raised $6 million in support of the welfare of soldiers. continued...